塚 meaning and stroke order
Cemetery; tomb, burial mound
How to write 塚, stroke by stroke
13 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.
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Meaning of 塚
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.
- burial mound (variant of 冢[zhong3])
How 塚 is built
Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Earth.
土 gives the meaning and 冢 hints at the sound.
Radical: 土 (soil), shared by 183 characters on this site.
How to remember 塚
Put earth 土 (tǔ) next to a burial mound 冢 (zhǒng) and you get 塚, a tomb piled up with soil. The 土 tells you the meaning is about earth, and 冢 gives the sound zhǒng.
塚 is a variant form of 冢 (zhǒng). In mainland China the standard form is 冢, but 塚 appears in older texts, in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and very often in Japanese place names. Example: 古塚 (gǔ zhǒng) an ancient burial mound.
Common mistake: Learners often read 塚 as zhōng or zhòng because of 中 or 重. The correct tone is the third tone, zhǒng. Also do not drop the dot inside 冢, which makes it look like 豕 (shǐ) without the top.
Questions about 塚
How many strokes are in 塚?
塚 is written with 13 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.
What does 塚 mean?
塚 (zhǒng) means cemetery; tomb, burial mound.
How do you pronounce 塚?
塚 is pronounced zhǒng, in the third tone (dipping).
What is the radical of 塚?
The radical of 塚 is 土, which carries the idea of "soil". Dictionaries list 塚 under this radical.
What is the simplified form of 塚?
塚 is a traditional character. Its simplified form is 冢, used in mainland China and Singapore.
Should I write 塚 or 冢?
In simplified Chinese, write 冢. Use 塚 only when you are copying an older text, a traditional source, or a Japanese name.
Is 塚 the same as 墓 (mù)?
They are related but not the same. 墓 is the general word for a grave, as in 墓地 (mùdì) cemetery, while 塚 or 冢 stresses a raised mound of earth over a grave.